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What is it about Weddings?

Why are we charmed by the thought of a woman and a man coming together and pledging their fidelity, finances, and futures to each other? Especially since statistics show that 1 in 3 marriages in Australia will ultimately end in divorce? Is it the pageantry, the traditions? White dresses, men in suits, rings, flower girls, […]

The Novel Ideas Factory – A Writers Bane?

Something I read in Chuck Wendig’s birthday post here, resonated with me the other day: “For a long time I thought ideas were everything. I thought them precious pearls, when the reality is, they’re just driveway gravel.” Then today another author, Rachel Johns, said she had an idea for a book, then found it was […]

Looking Like A Girl who Feels Better

You may know that I’ve recently had quite a nasty illness that still has its claws in me. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. I’ve had it for over two years, following a bout of Glandular Fever. And one other thing? Chronic Fatigue sucks. However, I’m on the road to recovery (yay!) and I’ve noticed something interesting. As […]

Singing in the Car – A Letter to my Son

The Shape of Us by Lisa Ireland

A good read from an Australian author – 4.5 stars. Four overweight women make friends via an online weight loss forum, come together to meet each other in person, develop strong bonds that help them through some of the toughest of times, and discover weight is a very personal problem to overcome (or come to […]

Thoughts on Writing as a Business

A few days ago, I very nearly became overwhelmed by the non-writing tasks that I had to do. Being an author – being a commercial indie author, is so much more than just churning out the volumes. I have to plan and execute a marketing and promotion campaign for each book I publish. I’m writing weekly blogs and […]

Flash Fiction 3rd April 2017

THE GARAGE – A LOVE STORY. The garage door slams open and beside me Cory groans. “Kill me now.” I gulp and look over the piles and piles of junk in the garage. For seven years it’s been our garbage tip for things that we didn’t want in the house, but that were just too […]

A Subtle Art is Waiting.

There are estimates that we wait for several weeks of our lives in front of traffic lights and at Stop signs. We don’t notice so much because it’s chopped up into 90 second pieces. This week I’ve had the opportunity to wait – alongside my dad – as they scheduled and then delayed his triple […]

The Oldest Trick in the Author’s Book.

It’s been a fortnight of high emotional charge for me – we’ve moved house, paid off the lion’s share of our debts, but I also found out that my beloved Dad is going in for a triple bypass surgery and may need to go on kidney dialysis, and I have severe Carpal Tunnel Syndrome which […]

The Eternal Existence of Stuff.

It wasn’t until I had to move house and started to pack my stuff away that I realised just how many things I have accumulated over a relatively short period of time. And just how many of those things really are meaningless bits of junk. I like a clean, clear look to the spaces in […]